Bounds for the Ratio of Two Gamma Functions

By looking back at the long history of bounding the ratio for and , various origins of this topic are clarified, several developed courses are followed, different results are compared, useful methods are summarized, new advances are presented, some related problems are pointed out, and related references are collected.

• Publication year

  2009

• Venue

  Journal of Inequalities and Applications

• Publication date

  2009-02-01

• Fields of study

  Mathematics

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  DOI 10.12691/tjant-2-5-1arXiv 0904.1048
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